To align with his royalties, he negotiates paying rent biannually.

How to carve a path from the kitchen to the cattle.

One paragraph later, she matter-of-factly brings them home.

…with parents who cared about poems and also shorthand, and near ships which carried rumors and news.

…if every innovation brings us closer together, from printing to sloop to plane.

…a son leans close to his mother through books.

Stuart Little tells a story of unconditional love.

Modesty always false modesty. A haughty modesty.

…to lean towards beauty manifested in twenty-six shades of green.

…like a shepherd with his flock, Candide stays on course.

Why then did he leave it to us as dream.

Undeniable is the truth of a last reader.

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

…we imagine ourselves just a little wiser.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny offer a riveting intimacy…

As the worshipper kneels to pray and the treasure-hunter kneels down to open a hidden drawer, the narrator gathers Flaubert.

…to make eye contact with outsiders to broaden our compassion for the human experience

…and set great expectations of a culture and a nation.

We long for her not to shatter the town.

…because her grandmother had “fishy” dreams and nobody else was confessing